In the Hidden Dragon Mountains, on the mountain path leading to the Four Directions Gate.
A group made their way up the mountain under cover of night.
Among them was Jin Yulin, the young master of the Myriad Treasures Sect, who had retreated in disgrace from the Myriad Treasures House earlier that day.
Besides the two Myriad Treasures Sect elders, one man and one woman, several more experts now followed behind him.
Beside Jin Yulin was a young man in fitted martial attire with an extraordinary bearing.
He was around twenty-seven or twenty-eight, powerfully built, with a keen, piercing gaze and the air of an expert.
"Senior brother, you must help me destroy that Alchemist surnamed Ge at the Myriad Treasures House.
"That bitch Liu Fuyan actually defied my orders for that fellow, and even dared to belittle and humiliate me.
"I'll get my hands on her, then ravage and torment her thoroughly!"
The man Jin Yulin called his senior brother frowned slightly.
"Junior brother, Elder Qian said that man's Alchemy Skill was exceptional. He might even have entered the ranks of sixth-grade Alchemy Masters.
"Even our Myriad Treasures Sect wouldn't lightly provoke someone like that. Why insist on making an enemy of him?
"Besides, the world is full of women. There's no need to fix your sights on someone else's woman."
Yet Jin Yulin looked utterly unwilling to let it go.
"Senior brother, I simply can't swallow this insult. By daring to provoke me like this, he's provoking the dignity of our Myriad Treasures Sect.
"Senior brother, you're my father's only personal disciple. You stand a chance of breaking into the top hundred of the Dragon Abyss Ranking at this Dragon Abyss Conference.
"With your boundless future, why should you fear a mere Alchemy Master?
"As for Liu Fuyan,